A low-ranking thug from the Loach Gang watched his master’s head get cut off, blood splashing across his eyes, and had an epiphany: the martial world only devours people. After ten years of bloody trials, he became the most vicious attack dog in the new martial world, only to discover that the massacre from all those years ago had been his master’s carefully laid killing trap for him: “My apprentice, the foundations of the new martial world were always meant to be built atop the old corpses.”